DRUG CARTELS
Pablo Escobar’s ‘Cocaine Hippos’ Won’t Stop Having Sex and Pooping
And they’re wreaking havoc with Colombia’s waterways.
Inside Mexico’s Endless War With Drug Cartels
VICE News gets unprecedented access to different sides in the conflict.
Mexican Drug Cartels Have Turned Once-Thriving Guadalajara Into a War Zone
The discovery of dozens of grisly “extermination houses” and mass graves has set the city on edge.
How Smugglers Flood Mexico With Cheap U.S. Guns
U.S. gun laws are easily exploited by traffickers and cartels in Mexico, who have caused devastation in their wake.
US Suddenly Decides Not to Prosecute Top Mexican General for Narco-Corruption
The unprecedented move will drop drug trafficking charges against Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda and send him back to Mexico to face justice.
Mexican Cartels Are Arming Themselves to the Teeth With Powerful US Sniper Rifles
High-powered .50-caliber rifles can be purchased legally in most of the U.S. — and they keep showing up in the hands of cartel gunmen.
Mexico Just Arrested a Cartel Boss Known as 'The Sledgehammer'
The move is an attempt by AMLO's government to claw back a semblance of control in the violence-plagued state, but it gives an opening to a rival cartel.
Why Mexican Cartels Are Shooting Up Drug Rehabs
Last week’s massacre at a drug rehab was the latest in a string of attacks on drug users in Mexico.
Dutch and Mexican Gangs Are Teaming Up to Sell High-End Meth to Asia
A VICE investigation reveals that meth shards "the size of your arm" are the latest product of the globalized drug trade.
Mexican Top Cop Allegedly Bribed by El Chapo Wants Out of Jail Because of Coronavirus
Genaro García Luna, currently housed in a Brooklyn federal jail on charges that he took millions of dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa cartel, has asked to be released for fear of contracting COVID-19.
Mexico Says the Narco ‘El Mini Lic’ Ordered This Journalist's Murder. Will the U.S. Hand Him Over?
Mexican authorities want a Sinaloa cartel leader's son extradited, but he's already cooperating with U.S. law enforcement.
A Man with a Ton of Guns and 2 People Bound in His Car Was Arrested Near the Mormon Massacre Site
The man was arrested in Agua Prieta, on the Mexican border with Arizona, with four assault-style weapons, spent magazines, high-caliber ammo, and two people bound and gagged in his car.